ATLANTA, Ga. – Colorado State University Pueblo redshirt senior Alisha Little (Aurora, Colo./University of Northern Colorado) made history on Thursday as she became the school's first-ever Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II First-Team All-American.

Along with becoming the program's first-ever WBCA Division II Coaches' All-American, Little is now the only women's basketball player in school history to be a three-time All-American as she was a WBCA Honorable Mention All-American in 2021-22 and 2023-24.

Additionally, Little is just the fourth player from the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference to ever earn Division II WBCA First-Team Coaches' All-America honors since the organization began the award in 1980. The other RMAC players to earn the honor were Colorado Mesa's Sharaya Selsor in 2014, Colorado Mesa's Kelsey Sigl in 2013 and Nebraska-Kearney's Darcy Stracke in 1999.

Little is one three players from the South Central Region to be named to the 10-player 2024-25 WBCA Division II First-Team All-America Team and one of two players from the RMAC to be recognized overall as Colorado Mesa's Olivia Reed Thyne, who was named the RMAC Player of the Year, was named an Honorable Mention selection. Little is joined on the WBCA Division II Coaches' All-America Team by Lubbock Christian's Grace Foster and Texas Woman's Ashley Ingram.

The 6-foot-1 forward earns WBCA Division II First-Team Coaches' All-America honors after leading the RMAC in scoring (24.9), points scored (723), rebounding (11.4), total rebounds (332), steals (2.9), total steals (83), blocked shots (3.6), total blocked shots (104), field goal attempts (542), free throws made (174), free throw attempts (234) and double-doubles (23). Little, who repeated as both the RMAC Defensive Player of the Year and a First-Team All-RMAC selection, is second in NCAA Division II in scoring, points per game, blocks per game, double-doubles, free throw attempts and is third in Division II in total blocks, field goals made and is fourth in Division II in field goal attempts, and free throws made.

During the regular season, Little earned a league-best eight RMAC Player of the Week accolades as she was named the Defensive Player of the Week three times, the Offensive Player of the Week once and earned both the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week accolades in the same week four times. In her career with the Pack, she was a 22-time RMAC Player of the Week. In addition, she was a three-time WBCA/D2CIDA Division II National Player of the Week.

Little set single season school records for scoring (723), scoring average (24.9), field goals made (258), and blocked shots (116) and is the only Division II women's basketball player to score over 700 points, pull down 300 rebounds and block 100 shots this season. Her 723 points this season is third-most in a season in RMAC history and also third-most all-time in a single season in state of Colorado history.

She ended the season recording 12 double-doubles over her last 14 games and tallied double-doubles in 47 or her last 61 games dating to the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Among active Division II players, she is first in career blocked shot average (3.4), second in total career blocked shots (294) and career scoring average (20.7) and third in career double-doubles (52) and is one of seven players with 2,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds. Additionally, her 2,621 career points ranked fourth among all active NCAA women's basketball players at all levels, while her combined 73 career double-doubles is second among all active NCAA women's basketball players and is one of just two active NCAA women's basketball players with 2,000 career points, 1,000 career rebounds and 350 career blocked shots.

Little, who began her collegiate career at Northern Colorado before transferring to CSU Pueblo prior to the 2021-22 season, closed her career second in the state of Colorado history in scoring with 2,621 points and is the state's all-time leader in both rebounding (1,362) and blocked shots (424) and she holds CSU Pueblo career records for scoring (1,801), scoring average (20.7), field goals made (659), blocked shots (294) and double-doubles (52).

Along with announcing its All-America Teams, the WBCA also announced both the Division II National Coach of the Year and Division II National Player of the Year. The Division II Coach of the Year was Grand Valley State's Mike Williams, while the 2024-25 Division II Player of the Year is Cal State Dominguez Hills' Nala Williams.

Little, Ingram, Foster and Williams are joined on the Coaches' All-America First Team by Grand Valley State's Rylie Bisballe, Fort Hays State's Katie DeGarmo, University of North Georgia's Caroline Martin, Southwest Minnesota State's Bri Stoltzman, Frostburg State's Emilee Weakley and Bentley's Maggie Whitmore.  

Reed Thyne is joined on the WBCA Division II Coaches' Honorable Mention All-America Team by MSU Billings' Dyauni Boyce, Minnesota State's Natalie Bremer, Eckerd's Chance Bucher, Assumption's Marina Callahan, East Stroudsburg's Emily Chmiel, Drury's Caitlynn Daniels, Georgia Southwestern's Destiny Garrett, Edinboro's Morgan Gentile, Lewis' Taylor Gugliuzza, Southern Connecticut State's Delaney Haines, Lee's Mallory Hampton, Azusa Pacific's Kelly Heimburger, Holy Family's Taylor Hinkle, Alaska-Anchorage's Tori Hollingshead, Saint Anselm's Melanie Hoyt, Central Washington's Sunny Huerta, Fairmont State's Leslie Huffman, Embry Riddle's Madyson Jean-Louis, Malone's Erin Kaufman, West Chester's Michelle Kozicki, Union's Olivia Lee, Lubbock Christian's Maci Maddox, Anderson's Diamond McDowell, Anderson's Zamiya Passmore, Tampa's Zoe Piller, Pittsburg State's Grace Pyle, Central Missouri's Reese Schaaf, Ashland's Haley Smith and North Georgia's Emily Trushel.

Little helped the ThunderWolves finish the 2024-25 campaign with an 18-11 overall record and a tie for fourth place in the RMAC with a 13-7 record. The Pack advanced to the RMAC Tournament for the fourth consecutive season and fell in the first round at No. 4 seeded Black Hills State.